James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory...
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3°12′21″W / 55.9552115°N 3.2057056°W / 55.9552115; -3.2057056 The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation is a registered Scottish charity set up in 1977. By supporting...
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Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell (née Dewar; 1824 – 12 December 1886) was the wife of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. She aided him in some of his...
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mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, who, in 1861 and 1862, published an early form of the equations that included the Lorentz force law. Maxwell first used...
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for James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell–Betti reciprocal work theorem Maxwell–Bloch equations Maxwell–Huber–Hencky–von Mises theory Maxwell coupling Maxwell–Cremona...
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http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_P/1_photographers_maxwell.htm - Photos and stories from the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. Stanford University CS 178 interactive...
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The James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics is an annual American Physical Society (APS) award that is given in recognition of outstanding contributions...
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Festival between 2007 and 2022, and as trustee and chair of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. In recognition of his contributions to technology and business...
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professor in the University of Edinburgh. He was a Trustee of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. Atiyah's mathematical collaborators included Raoul Bott, Friedrich...
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then Edinburgh Academy, where he began his lifelong friendship with James Clerk Maxwell. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Edinburgh...
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or oil shale. Augustin-Louis Cauchy publishes Green's theorem. James Clerk Maxwell's first scientific paper describes a mechanical means of drawing mathematical...
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India Street, Edinburgh, the birthplace of James Clerk Maxwell and home of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. In 2010 it was relocated to 15 South College...
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Elizabeth Liddell, father of John Cay FRSE and maternal grandfather of James Clerk Maxwell. Cay was born on 7 July 1758 at Charlton Hall in North Charlton in...
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hangs in the birthplace of James Clerk Maxwell in Edinburgh; Higgs was the Honorary Patron of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. A portrait by Victoria...
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Church. James Clerk Maxwell, founder of the modern theory of electromagnetism, was born at 14 India Street (now the home of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation)...
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James Hutton, he was a brother-in-law of architect Robert Adam, and a great-great-uncle of physicist James Clerk Maxwell. John's father, John Clerk,...
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2002. Retrieved 11 January 2013. "About the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation". James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 25 July 2024. Peter...
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Portrait Gallery, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. In 1868 Blackburn published Birds drawn from Nature, which...
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November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021. "Who was James Clerk Maxwell?". James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021....
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mother of John Cay, mother-in-law of John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie and grandmother of James Clerk Maxwell. Liddell was the daughter of John Liddell...
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of Mathematics and its Applications with the support of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. 1999 Grigory Barenblatt 2003 Martin David Kruskal 2007 Peter...
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today. He is also well known for his biography of the physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Campbell was born in Edinburgh. His father, Robert Campbell, RN...
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2016. Levitt, 2013, p. 19. Levitt, 2013, p. 8. James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, "Who was James Clerk Maxwell?", accessed 6 August 2017; archived 30 June 2017...
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Royal Astronomical Society 1997: Bruce Medal 2003: Kyoto Prize 2003: James Clerk Maxwell Prize of the American Physical Society. Citation: "For seminal contributions...
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Bust of James Clerk Maxwell for University of Aberdeen, Marischal College (1956); a later copy is displayed at the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation in Edinburgh...
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proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The SI unit of frequency, the hertz...
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as far as trigonometry and were limited to the simplest algebra. James Clerk Maxwell took the work of Faraday and others and summarised it in a set of...
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January 2008). "What became of the Senior Wranglers?" (PDF). James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. Retrieved 16 February 2011. Neale, Charles Montague (1907)...
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Faraday's law of induction (redirect from Maxwell–Faraday equation)
exception was James Clerk Maxwell, who in 1861–62 used Faraday's ideas as the basis of his quantitative electromagnetic theory.: 510 In Maxwell's papers, the...
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James Clerk Maxwell presented to the Royal Society a set of equations that described this relationship between electricity and magnetism. Maxwell's equations...
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